Draft Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)[1](October 26, 1920)

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1.Avery comprehensive and solemn printed statement concerning the
Control

Commission[2]to he issued within two days. Fulfilment by Bukharin and
Dzerzhinsky.

2.AskDzerzhinsky and Preobrazhensky to work in the Control Commission
not less than three hours a day in order to make it a really effective
organ of Party and proletarian conscience.

3. “DiscussionLeaflet” to be started immediately and given
particular attention. Bukharin and Preobrazhensky to take special
charge.

4.TheControl Commission be recommended, as a special task, to adopt a
careful and individualised attitude, often even in the form of a downright
cure, towards representatives of the so-called opposition who have suffered
a psychological crisis due to failures in their administrative or Party
careers. We should try to calm them, explain things to them in a comradely
manner, find them (without using the command method) suitable jobs
congenial to their psychological nature, give them advice on this score,
the directives of the C.C.’s Orgbureau, etc.

[1]Thedraft decision with amendments was adopted at a meeting of the
Politburean of the C.C. on October 26, 1920, devoted to the question of
“Inner-Party Moods”.

[2]Thestatement concerning the Control Commission set up in accordance
with the decision of the Ninth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B,) was
published on October 28, 1920, on the front page ofPravda.